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Walmart bought Vizio – The Verge
After announcing plans to acquire Vizio in February, Walmart officially owns the company after the $2.3 billion transaction closed on Tuesday. The retail giant says the acquisition will help bolster its advertising business, as Platform Plus — the TV-maker’s advertising and data division — “accounts for all the company’s [Vizio’s] gross profit.” The deal has raised concerns among privacy advocates,…
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Talking Cars 455: We Bought a Tesla Cybertruck
Keith Barry Keith Barry has been an auto reporter at Consumer Reports since 2018. He focuses on safety, technology, and the environmental impact of cars. Previously, he led home and appliance coverage at Reviewed; reported on cars for USA Today, Wired, and Car & Driver; and wrote for other publications as well. Keith earned a master’s degree in public health…
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How We Bought Our First Home: A Content Marketer and a Government Contractor in South Carolina
Welcome to “How I Bought My First Home,” a Lifehacker series where I ask real people how they actually sealed the deal on their first home. This week, I chatted with Mark* (a content marketer) about how he and his wife (a government contractor) navigated the home-buying process for the first time, and how you might be able to follow…
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I bought an iPhone 15 ahead of the iPhone 16 launch — and I don’t regret it
I knew well ahead of time that this year’s iPhone 16 update figured to be a significant one with the kind of features to make owners of recent iPhones envious of the new models. That’s not because of any of the rumors circulating around Apple’s latest handsets, although there as certainly an ample supply of those. No, I knew Apple…
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I used ChatGPT to compare game controllers – here’s what I bought
My kid is absolutely obsessed with Fortnite — or at least, that’s what I assume based on the hours he spends each week yelling upstairs in his bedroom at the game. I get it, I used to shout at Contra, Zelda and Dr. Wily back in the day. But when I was a kid, we had one controller — the…
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